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Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE): September 2025 changes

KCSIE has been published for the 2025/26 academic year. Understand what's changed and what your governing board needs to do.

Last reviewed on 1 September 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Key things for you to know
  2. Part 1: safeguarding information for all staff
  3. Part 2: the management of safeguarding 
  4. Part 3: safer recruitment
  5. Part 4: safeguarding concerns or allegations made about staff
  6. Part 5: child-on-child sexual violence and sexual harassment
  7. Annex A: safeguarding information for school and college staff
  8. Annex B: further information 
  9. Annex C: further information 
  10. Next steps 

The DfE has published its final version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for September 2025. It came into force on 1 September 2025. 

Please note: this article only summarises the changes between KCSIE 2024 and 2025. For a summary of the whole KCSIE 2025 document, see our other article. 

The changes this year are mainly technical, for example, providing updated links and resources.

Key things for you to know

Assure yourselves that your child protection policy is up to date with the latest technical changes Be aware that the Department for Education (DfE) expects to publish new guidance on gender questioning children soon. If this happens, there may be further updates to KCSIE. We'll update this article with any changes and what they mean for